Installing Google App Engine on Vista

As with my previous post regarding installing Python MSI file, I had to copy it to my local drive and run it from there.

After it loads up, I get the following error:

Problem:

Could not access network location
\\[servername]\[profilename]$\Profile\Desktop

Solution:

Open a DOS/command prompt, go into the folder containing that MSI file and run the following command:

msiexec /a c:\tmp\GoogleAppEngine-1.7.3.msi /qb TARGETDIR=c:\gae

This will automatically extract all the files into the c:\gae folder.  Once this is done, you can run the Google App Engine launcher from here:

C:\gae\Google\google_appengine\launcher\GoogleAppEngineLauncher.exe

I made a shortcut to it. I was able to add an existing project to it and it's working perfectly.